Incas

E
  • Expansion based on ancient ancestry worship
S
  • 9-13 million people
  • core community self sufficent
  • Women

-worked in fields
-house household responsibilities
-Parallel division between the sexes

P
  • tension between royal lineages
  • regional subordination
  • state bureaucracy
  • local rulers
I

R
  • Sun- highest deity= temple of the sun center of Cuzco state religion
  • local worship of gods
  • belief based on profound animism
  • Holy shrines- tombs, caves, rivers, mountains, etc.
  • animals, goods m and humans used as sacrifices
I

T